Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
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Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.
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So that hurt a LOT.
Also she's right, Idaho sucks, it's ragingly conservative and boring and the only good parts were the writing camp I went to in a state park two years running and the random creek in the middle of nowhere that ran perfectly clear and was just precisely deep enough to swim in.
cw: rape, incest, child abuse, talk about suicide, fatphobia, self harm, depression, mentions of eating disorder, throwing up, ptsd, a mention of harry potter.
cw: rape, incest, child abuse, talk about suicide, fatphobia, self harm, depression, mentions of eating disorder, throwing up, ptsd, a mention of harry potter.
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